{"id":269,"date":"2020-11-18T01:21:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T01:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/16-1\/?page_id=269"},"modified":"2020-11-20T02:15:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T02:15:26","slug":"what-of-the-bird-that-never-left-the-nest","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/what-of-the-bird-that-never-left-the-nest\/","title":{"rendered":"What of the bird that never left the nest?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>What of the bird that never left the nest?<\/em>\u00a0<br><em>A chick stuck in a tree, the sorest sight<\/em>\u00a0<br><em>to see. Talons like roots, legs hold their best.<\/em>\u00a0<br><em>Wings with no purpose, in the day or night.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Elegant feathers, never to be seen.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<br><em>Home becomes a cage. Life loses meaning.<\/em>\u00a0<br><em>Freedom\u00a0weathers;\u00a0choice is only a dream.<\/em>\u00a0<br><em>No more care received; bird brain is weaning.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Stunted growth, bones ache. Tight joints need a shake.<\/em>\u00a0<br><em>Don\u2019t look\u00a0down;\u00a0an inevitable fate.<\/em>\u00a0<br><em>Falling short, life\u2019s bad dream. Eggs need to break.<\/em>\u00a0<br><em>All dreams end. Reality will not wait.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The forgotten bird; jumping to the test.<\/em>\u00a0<br><em>A flight filled fall, puts an old bird at rest.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nWhat of the bird that never left the nest?\u00a0A chick stuck in a tree, the sorest sight\u00a0to see. Talons like roots, legs hold their best.\u00a0Wings with no purpose, in the day or night.\u00a0 Elegant feathers, never to be seen.\u00a0\u00a0Home becomes&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/what-of-the-bird-that-never-left-the-nest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;What of the bird that never left the nest?&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"parent":5,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/no-intro.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-269","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/269\/revisions\/390"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}